Title & Author:

Skin & Bones / [presented by] César Pelli (Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Cesar Pelli -- Roman Oil Factory, Brisgane, Algeria -- Top: Nomad's Tent, Eritrea. Bottom: Waura Indian's Hut, Brazil -- Mies van der Rohe Design For Office Building, Berlin -- Tent Frameworks, Siberia -- Pacific Design Center, 1971. Pelli -- Mies van der Rohe & Pelli Mullions, Pelli Centre, Vancouver, 1968 -- Mies van der Rohe Toronto Dominion Center -- Pacific Center, 1968. Pelli -- Communications Satellite Main Laboratories (COMSAT), 1967. Pelli. Day & Night Views -- Wells Fargo Bank Building, Oakland, California, 1972. Pelli -- Reflections On Wells Fargo Bank Facade -- US Embassy, Tokyo, 1972. Pelli -- Museum Of Modern Art, New York, 1977. Model Of Extension. Pelli -- Cladding Studies For Museum Of Modern Art Extension -- Cladding For Museum Of Modern Art Extension -- Bene STABILE Buildings, Houston. Model -- The Commons Of Columbus, Indiana, 1970. Day & Night Views -- The Commons Of Columbus, Indiana, 1970. Interior -- Winter Garden, Niagara Falls, 1975. Day & Night Views -- Rainbow Center Mall & Winter Garden, Niagara Falls -- Winter Garden, Niagara Falls. Night Silhouette.

Summary:

Argentine-born César Pelli studied architecture at Tucuman University and the University of Illinois. He worked with Eero Saarinen from 1954 - 1964, and then with DMJM before becoming a partner in Gruen Associates in 1968. He then set up his own practice in 1977. He is currently Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University. He is particularly interested in "thin skin" buildings, whose roots go back to man's earliest huts and tents; simple structures of "bones" with "skin" wrapped round - an architecture of enclosure, not an architecture of weight as in stone buildings. He is equally preoccupied with transparency and flexibility. He illustrates his ideas with his own designs, buildings all over five storeys high.

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture, Industrial.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture industrielle.

Added entries:

Pelli, Cesar, narrator.

Skin and Bones